Prosecutor Colleen Ryan asked the court to postpone the case against Nyantumbo and Maphosa once again: it has been repeatedly postponed since their arrest in April…. Nyantumbo's attorney Mirriam Mashishi and Maphosa attorney Mrs Ramos apologised for their failure to appear at the previous remand date, blaming car problems and ‘the civil servants’ strike. The third accused man - Mrs Sekhu’s alleged boyfriend Chakhoma Machaba right, fled to Mozambique: SA has no extradiction treaty with his country…. http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Marzanne-accused-in-court-20100921

Magistrate Hein Louw set the start of the trial-date at October 8 in the same court. The two Mozambican builders face charges of armed robbery and attempted double-murder. The SAPS charge sheet before the court described that the men are accused of allegedly “severely attacking” 2-year-old Baby Marzanne Kruger at the family home in Robindale in April this year. The baby had been in a coma for many weeks and temporarily lost her eyesight as a result of the attack. The maid’s injuries were far less severe: Francina Sekhu was discharged from hospital the next day. She has since then been legally dismissed from the family’s employment for gross negligence – she herself had invited the men into the Kruger family home to watch TV. The family had to apply to the Labour Court to do so.http://news.iafrica.com/sa/621493.html

During the remand-proceedings, defence attorneys Mashishi and Ramos also apologised for not being in court for the previous appearance. Mashishi said she could not get into the court-room because of the “public servants' strike”. Ramos “had car problems.’ Louw accepted the apologies.

The brutal assaults by three Mozambicans on the infant on 22 April 2010 at her Robindale, Randburg home shocked the nation.

The baby was battered so brutally that her skull had “cracked like an egg,” her doctor Michael Greefftold the news media after she started recovering her eyesight. The Bryanston doctor was on emergency call at the Sandton Medi-clinic the day the baby was brought in. The pediatrician was ‘shocked when he saw the baby’s injuries. They were the most awful and gruesome I’ve ever seen. Her skull was cracked like an egg, most damage was inflicted against the back of her brain – causing her blindness”. She slowly regained some sight but Greeff said she’s too young to establish the full extent of her current eyesight. Her development lagged behind that of other infants initially, but ‘she’s catching up fast. She crawls, she laughs and she’s a happy baby,’ he said.http://www.beeld.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Sy-kruip-lag-en-is-gelukkig-20100813http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Marzanne-accused-in-court-20100921http://news.iafrica.com/sa/621493.html-------------------------------

An unnamed Afrikaner farm-wife was left badly traumatised by a brutal gang-rape by three black farm-attackers on her farm near Marken in Limpopo. Agri-Limpopo chairman Francois van den Berg said she 'is badly traumatised. It's barbaric. No civilised person would do something like that'. Her husband was tied up and locked in an out-building when the family was attacked at 9am on Sunday-morning, the woman then was gang-raped inside the homestead.He managed to free himself and alert the farm-watch and the farm-watch immediately threw up roadblocks and arrested three black males, aged 25, 30 and 38 years. The farmers then handed the rapists -- all from the Steylloop region outside Potgietersrust/Mokopane -- over to the local police said Lt Col Mohale Ramatseba. The farmer's wife was treated for trauma and administered antiretroviral drug-treatment at the Ellisras/Lephale hospital to prevent HIV-AIDS transfer. http://www.beeld.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/66-jarige-3-keer-verkrag-20100920

Stellenbosch police said there have not been any major breakthroughs in the murder case of a Maties (University of Stellenbosch) student.Twenty two-year-old Stellenboch student Daniel Booysen was stabbed to death earlier this week. He was stabbed while trying to protect a friend from three unknown black men. The police's Rene Mathee said, "The matter is still under investigation. We are following up all possible leads. We don't have any arrests as yet. We are urging the public to contact the police if they have any information that can assist them."http://bit.ly/c7gjiS

18 Sep 2010 - Cape Town Police were looking for a black man accused of robbing a white American couple near the Noon Gun on Signal Hill. The American visitors were accosted by a man who threatened them with a knife, before robbing one of the victims of her passport, a fleece-top and her digital camera.Officials say they have yet to make any arrests, but are investigating the incident."Police in central Cape Town can confirm an incident of mugging that took place at Military Road, yesterday. During the day, a knife-wielding suspect approached a couple a robber them of their personal belongings," said police's Randall Stoffels. http://bit.ly/8XJ6yj

A Pietersburg/Polokwane Afrikaner family has launched a law suit accusing the SAPS of negligence: claiming that SAPS reservist Constable Jonas Thsepo had left the family at the mercy of armed robber Mathome Maphetho inside their home - and which had caused the same man to stab Willem van Schalkwyk a second time in front of many witnesses.

The Van Schalkwyk family - father Willem, mother Ria and daughters Leila and Hestrie - are claiming more than R2,7-million in damages from the minister of police. The family claim the police failed in their duty to protect them as Constable Jonas Tshepo - the first policeman on the scene – had at first cuffed the robber, but then released the handcuffs as he said “the culprit was nearly unconscious and posed no further risk.” The court heard earlier how Mathome Maphetho broke into the family home in the early hours of October 6, 2007. The knife-wielding man, who is now serving a jail sentence for the robbery, stabbed Willem van Schalkwyk at least twice, causing such serious injuries that the victim could no longer walk.

Meanwhile Maphetho was also injured by his own knife in the unarmed family members' attempts to wrest the knife away from him. By the time the constable arrived Ria van Schalkwyk had managed to disarm the robber, throwing the knife out of reach. The court was told by family members that there was blood everywhere – that Mr Van Schalkwyk had been bleeding copiously.

Daughter Leila testified that she was relieved when she saw the policeman walking in, as she "thought they were now going to be fine, as the police arrived to help them". She was especially relieved when he handcuffed the robber.

However, her relief was short-lived, as the constable uncuffed the man “after a short conversation with him in a language she did not understand”.She testified that she begged Tshepo not to leave them with the robber, but he said there was ‘too much blood in the house’.

Her father testified that the robber had then grabbed the discarded knife and attacked him a second time before a family friend came to his aid. Advocate SM Lebala SC, acting for the police, claimed that his client’s story was different and that there had not been a second attack. He would place medical evidence before court to prove that Maphetho was “in a far worse state than Willem Van Schalkwyk had been at the time”. Lebala said the police reservist – Tshepo – had told him that after he uncuffed the robber he had told the family ‘to follow him outside, as he wanted to phone an ambulance’.

Willem van Schalkwyk submitted in his testimony that ‘this was impossible, as he (van Schalkwyk) could not walk after the stabbing. His friend had to carry him out to the car to try to seek medical help.” Van Schalkwyk said the uncuffed Maphetho had lunged at the knife after the policeman had left the man behind while the reservist had left the room. The robber jumped on top of Van Schalkwyk and again stabbed him, he said.

The term "genocide" was coined by legal scholar Raphael Lemkin in 1943, writing:

'Generally speaking, genocide does not necessarily mean the immediate destruction of a nation, except when accomplished by mass killings of all members of a nation. It is intended rather to signify a coordinated plan of different actionsaiming at the destruction of essential foundations of the life of national groups, with the aim of annihilating the groups themselves.

The objectives of such a plan would be the disintegration of the political and social institutions, of culture, language, national feelings, religion, and the economic existence of national groups, and the destruction of personal security, liberty, health, dignity and lives of the members of such groups... '